Comment 58 for bug 30557

this bug is still present on feisty herd2 on a sony vaio fs11m (centrimo 1.6GHz)
kernel:
2.6.20-5-generic

changing max_cstate as follows, resolve the issue:

echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate

On 10/30/06, hardyn <email address hidden> wrote:
> i am still having the problem of high CPU usage while idle, movie
> playback choppy etc. The maxcstate patch does take care of the problem.
> it appears that some effort has be taken to fix this, although i doesn't
> work with my configuration.
>
> asus z70va notebook pent. m. w/ fglrx driver.
>
> is this an issue that is still being looked into, or could something
> else in my configuration still be causing this problem?
>
> thanks
> Arlen
>
> --
> cpu idle time in /proc/stat wrong
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/30557
>